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Oh, Danny boy, Oh Danny boy, I love you so! But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an Avé there for me. And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me, And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be, For you will bend and tell me that ...
The title of the air came from the name of County Londonderry, and was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady in the county.. Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited. [1]
Danny Boy was born on October 31, 1977, and grew up in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.In 2016, Danny Boy announced that he is gay. [3] He has said in numerous interviews that the suicide of a man he had been in a relationship with pushed him to come out, and that he wants to be a positive role model for LGBTQ people experiencing shame over their sexuality.
Weatherly put the lyrics of his song Danny Boy to the air, which became a popular song given the themes of emigration of loss and connections to the experience of the Irish diaspora. [2] [4] There are a number of views on the age and origin of the Londonderry Air, but there is a lack of evidence to settle the case. Some believe that Ross ...
The first of Weatherly's well-known works was the hymn "The Holy City", written in 1892 to music by the British composer Stephen Adams. The song includes the refrain "Jerusalem, Jerusalem!". He wrote the song "Danny Boy" while living in Bath in 1910, but it did not meet with much success.
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Danny Boy, a British musical film; Danny Boy, a British drama film; Danny Boy, an American film; Danny Boy, a British made-for-television film about the Battle of Danny Boy; Danny Boy, a 2010 animated short directed and written by Marek Skrobecki